Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...monkeys the proctors would make! Perhaps - but why should I speculate? Why should the idea - the exceedingly faint and undefined idea - that at the approaching semi-annuals the brains of each and every one of us are to be carefully removed, dissected, weighed, and measured by this infallible instrument transform me into a querulous interrogation-point? Let us welcome the new machine, and accept with courage its edicts, conscious that they will be an improvement upon the existing system in one respect, and that altogether the most important, - some reliance can be placed upon them...
...vulgar American whom we all find so disagreeable. And as their manners are easily copied, and their mode of thought is easily burlesqued, nothing is more common than for an American, who is convinced that he is a gentleman, and therefore a different being from the vulgar herd, to transform himself into a burlesque imitation of the blase European. Harvard men are particularly liable to this temptation. Their education is more cosmopolitan - if I may use the word - than any other on this continent, and the name and prestige of their college gives them a perfectly proper feeling of pride...
...give us any ground for suspecting a leaven of prejudice or self-interest in their advocacy. For this reason it is to be noticed that the two colleges - Princeton and Williams - which lead off the attempt to establish the Intercollegiate literary contests, have not been among the foremost to transform school-boys into students. The President of one of them, who is understood to be strongly in favor of the proposed plan, has already made widely known his views upon College discipline, and it is not unnatural that he should now wish to lead into the arena his well-tamed...